Fixture for advertising signs



Mar. 13, 1923.

T. P. HOLLIDAY FIXTURE FOR ADVERTISING SIGNS Filed Dec. 10, 1921Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

THOMAS P. HOLLIDAY, or SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

FIXTURE ron ADVERTISING SIGNS.

Application filed December 10,1921. Serial No. 521,523.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs P. HOLLIDAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Savannah, in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia,have invented new and useful Fixtures for Advertising Signs, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in methods of displayingadvertising signs, flags, banners, posters, bill boards and bulletinboards by the use of new and economical fixtures which provide for thedisplay of two different advertisements on the one fixture, making whatmight be called two-face signs.

They have the distinct advantages of partially and completely revolvingand moving back and forth freely thereby attracting attention andthereby reducing the exposure of the sign to the rain, and also reducingthe wear and tear from the action of the wind on outdoor signs.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of the entire fixture;Figure 2 an adaptation, and Figure 3 is another adaptation for use indisplaying advertising signs, etc., by means of artificial currents ofair. Figure 4 shows a preferred method of assembling the parts.

In Figure 1, A represents the wire frame which is made of one piece ofwire into this ingenious shape so that it supports the ad vertisingsign, and by means of the loops or rings E and IE" it revolves freelyaround the sup-porting pole or post B, in

accordance with the way the wind blows, and this moving of the signattracts attention and thereby increases the value of the advertisement. D represents the advertising sign which may be made ofvarious ma terials, such as cloth, paper, card-board, weather-proofparaflined fibre, tin, etc. I The sign is made double so that it has twofaces two advertisements, and the wire frame A fits in between them sothat the supporting wire frame is hidden from view.

In Figure 2, C shows an extension of the wire frame beyondthe point ofthe brace at the top, and the brace at the lower end is attached to thewire frame at E, about midway between E and E. In this adaptation thewire frame A is also made of one piece of wire.

Figure 3 shows an adaptation of the twoface revolving sign for indoordisplay, using artificial currents of air to make it revolve. A showsthe wire frame which is made of one piece of wire with rings at top, andbottom so that it revolves freely around the post B, which has a screwhook at the top to attach to the electric fan F, and at the bottom ascrew eye to which aweight is attached, for the purpose of holding thesign steady, as it revolves. and the wire frame and post fit in between,so that they are almost, and sometimes, entirely hidden from view. Inthis adaptation Figure 4 shows another method of attaching the wireframe to the post by means of the screw hook eye at the bottom.

This isan improved and preferred design in which the rings E and E arereduced in size to fit the screw hook and screw eye as shown in Figure4, thereby simplifying the assembling of the parts and also reducing thefriction so that the easier.

In the use of cloth and other similar signs, the material may be cutapproximately double the size of the finished sign, and the desiredadvertising matter be printed, lithographed or painted on one sidethereof. It may then be folded in the middle and sewed at the top edge,leaving a hole, as at the upper left hand corner of Fig. 1 for the loopof the frame A to slip through. When displaying paper posters composedof two at the top and the screw The sign is double sign will revolveseparate sheets on these fixtures, the said 7 sheets may be securedtogether by the well have been made and patented which involve '7 theprinciple of revolving like the weathervane. i I therefore do not claimsuch a combination broadly; butI claim:

1. A device of the class described comj prising a single wire bent toprovide a sub stantially horizontal member, a plurality of intersectingmembers dependlng therefrom, a pivoting loop in said horizontal member,and a similar loop adjacent the ends of said intersecting members.

2. A device of the class described comprising a single wire bent toprovide a substantially horizontal member, a plurality of inclinedmembers intersecting substantially beneath, the mid point of saidhorizontal a pair of intersecting members depending: 10 member apivoting loop at substantially therefrom, and pivoting loops, adapted tosaid mid point, and a second pivoting loop engage said support, in saidhorizontal mematthe intersection of said inclined members her andadjacent the intersecting point of 3. The combination with a sgipport,o; a said depending members.

air of character bearin sur aces" an a T Substantially triangular fiamebetween said TIIOMAS HOLLIDAY' surfaces, composed of a single Wire bentto \Vitness: provide a substantially horizontal member, M. W. BARRY.

